A BRIEF BUT HELPFUL GLOSSARY FOR THE SPANGLISH-IMPAIRED

This one-page glossary is a compilation of non-English words and phrases appearing in the text of Six Mexicans Named Gonzalez. They are words taken from both the original Castilian Spanish and the more regionalized idiom known as "Spanglish". Spanglish, as you may know, is the delightfully bastardized hybrid of Spanish and English spoken primarily by the North American "pocho", a.k.a. Chicano or Mexican-American. It is not quite Spanish, not quite English, often both, and sometimes more of one than the other.